Gustavos heidel



(No Model.)

G. HBIDBL GASOLNE TORCH? No. 486,059A Patented NOV. 8,1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

GUSTAVOS HEIDEL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS KRIEOKHAUS AND RICHARD MERKLE, OF SAME PLACE.

GASOLlNE-TORCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,039, dated November 8, 1892.

Application le-d August 20, 1891. Serial No. 403,246. (No model.)

To afZZ whom t may concern: of the flame and the side orifices 13 for the Be it known that I, GUSTAVOS HEIDEL, of entrance ot air into the interior or combus- 55 the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, tion chamber of the burner. have invented a certain new and useful Irn- 14 is a cup secured to the pipe beneath the provement in Gasoline-Torches, of which the reservoir at the rear end of the burner to refollowing is a full, clear, and exact descripceive gasoline for the heating: of the burner tion, reference being had to the accompanywhen the torch is to be used. For this purpose 6o lng drawings, forming part of this specicathe gasoline in the cup is Set on iire.

'COU- 15 is an ordinary valve located in the side io This torch is intended for the application ot' the pipe over the cup by which the ilow of of a flame against an object or surface to be gasoline may be regulated or stopped. heated; and it consists in the peculiar conl isastufiing-boxthrough which thevalve- 65 struction and arrangeinentof the handle and stem passes. of the pipe leading from the reservoir to the The effect. of the flame from the gasoline burner with its appended cap, the novel feain the cup, and also from the burner, will be tures being set forth in the claims. to heat the contents of the reservoir to some Figure I is a side view with the supplydegree and by expansion of the gaseous part 7o opening in section. Fig. Il is a bottom view thereof to force the liquid contentsoutthrough with the handle partly in section, the valve the burner jet.

zo being placed on the opposite side of the pipe The location of the burner below the level to that shown in Fig. I. ot the reservoir, and close to it, has two benel is the horizontally-arranged reservoir ficial results: First, the force of gravity will 75 having a general cylindricalform. (The forni, carry the contents of the reservoir to the however, is non-essential.) burner, and, second, the heat of the burner 2 is the lling neck or opening through and flame will heat the reservoir, and by which gasoline is poured into the reservoir causing the expansion ot the gaseous part of near its rear end. The neck or opening is its contents press the gasoline to the burner. 8o StOpped by a screw-plug Si, whose inner end In many or most cases the burner is in- 4 lits a valve-seat 5, and acts asavalve. The clined upward in use, and it is obvious that 3o reservoir has a handle-shank G, projecting the pipe lO must be in connection with the centrally from its rear end in line with the lower part of the reservoir, so that the supply reservoir. On the shank is first placed a of gasoline will not be cut ott. This end is 85 Wooden or other non-conducting shield or disk accomplished by Inakiingr the connection 1l 7, covering the rear end of the reservoir. near the handle. It is obvious that the 8 is the horizontally-arrauged handle, of burner must project beyond the front end of wood or other non-conductingmaterial,bored the reservoir to allow the instrument to be at its inner end to receive the shank 6 and used in all positions and places. Hence the 9o extendinginline with the reservoirand shank. pipe lO extends from near the hand end to The shank is secured in the handle bya dianear the front end ot' the reservoir.

4o metric pin 9, the handle being of wood and I claim as my inventionhaving a Wooden shield. n The combination of the horizontally-ar- 10 is thehorizontally-arrangedburner-pipe, ranged reservoir l, havingahandle 8 extend- 95 Whose end 1l is turned at right angles thereto, ing in line therewith, a shield 7, of non-con screwed into a neck or socket 2 on the under ducting inateriahlocated between the handles side of the reservoir near the rear end of the and the reservoir, a shank 6 and diametric reservoir. The body of the pipe is parallel pin 9, by which the handle is secured to the with the reservoir. reservoir, and a supply-pipe connected with roc l2 is the burner in line with the pipe, supthe reservoirprovided withavalveand burner, plied with gasoline through a small jet-hole, substantially as described.

5o as usual. This hole is not shown, as it forms GUSTAVOS HEIDEL.

no part of the invention. It is, however, in Witnesses: line with the pipe and burner. |The burner SAML. KNIGHT,

has the usual orifice at the end for the issue ALBERT M. EBERSOLE. 

